Installation overview

Perform the following steps to prepare your environment to install and configure HCL Workload Automation:

1. Plan your HCL Workload Automation network to determine what type of workstation you need to install. See Network planning.
2. Check the available installation media, see Accessing the installation media.
3. Check the installation prerequisites, see Prerequisites.
4. If you are installing a component that needs a Relational Database, decide if you want to use a DB2® database, an Oracle database, an Informix® Dynamic Server database, or a Microsoft SQL Server database, and install it.
5. Optional, create or upgrade the HCL Workload Automation database tables before installing or upgrading, see Creating or upgrading the HCL Workload Automation database tables before installing or upgrading. The database administrator runs this procedure only if the IT administrator who installs the product does not know all the confidential information related to the database. If instead the IT administrator can provide the database administrator user ID and password during the installation, the database administrator does not need to run these procedures because the installation automatically creates and upgrades the database tables.
6. Choose the available method that you want to use for installing or upgrading. For information about the available installation methods, see Installation method.
7. Collect the information necessary to type in the required fields during the installation.
8. Manage the HCL Workload Automation user for the instance that you are installing, see HCL Workload Automation user.
9. Install HCL Workload Automation by following the instructions provided in Installing.
10. Perform any configuration required for the workstation type that you installed, see Configuring.